Represents clients in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and other complex business transactions.
Advises private and public companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, including with respect to corporate governance and other general corporate matters.

Joshua represents private equity firms, portfolio companies, public and private companies, and other strategic investors in a variety of corporate and M&A matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, auction processes, joint ventures, reorganizations and other complex business transactions. Joshua’s transaction experience covers a variety of industries, including convenience-retail, manufacturing, aggregates and ready-mix concrete, technology, health care, retail, hospitality, infrastructure, business services and industrial.

Joshua earned his J.D. from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and graduated summa cum laude as a member of the Order of the Coif. He served as both a Staff Editor and as a Lead Articles Editor for the SMU Law Review Association.

Prior to joining Akin, Joshua was a judicial intern for the Hon. Sidney Fitzwater of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Representative Work

Private Equity M&A

Represented a private equity fund in numerous acquisitions of aggregates mining companies across the United States.
Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of an industrial components manufacturer.
Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a leading provider of wireless condition monitoring.
Represented a private equity fund in its sale of an indoor adventure park company.
Represented a private equity firm in its strategic investment in a leading provider of practitioner-assisted stretch therapy services.

Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of multiple home services businesses.
Represented a private equity firm in its majority investment in an operator and franchisor of oil change and automotive maintenance service centers, and related add-on acquisition of a portfolio of car washes.
Represented a private equity firm in its strategic investment in a leading operator and franchisor of outpatient mental health clinics.
Represented a private equity firm in its investment in an operator and franchisor of industry-leading athletic-based training facilities.
Represented a private equity firm in its investment in a leading franchisor of hydraulic hose repair and replacement services.
Represented a private equity fund in the acquisition of a distributor of fluid power and power train solutions.
Represented a portfolio company in acquisitions of aggregates mining companies across the southeast United States.
Represented founders of a top provider of mitigation, reconstruction, and roofing services to leading commercial property owners and asset managers in sale of majority stake to private equity firm.
Represented founders of a leading provider of cloud computing, data analytics, application development and managed services in sale of majority stake to private equity firm.

Strategic M&A

Represented 7-Eleven, Inc. in its $21 billion acquisition of Speedway from Marathon Petroleum Corp., which is the largest transaction in the history of the convenience store industry and the largest-ever U.S. transaction in which Akin served as buy-side M&A counsel, and related divestitures.
Represented New Fortress Energy, Inc. (NFE) in its $2 billion sale of 11 liquid natural gas infrastructure vessels to a newly formed joint venture between funds managed by Apollo Global Management Inc. and NFE.
Represented a publicly traded company in its acquisition of a health care technology company.